What is "scoop net"

Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.]

1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

   Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
   --J. R. Drake.

5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

7. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.

8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. [Newspaper or laboratory cant]

9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. [informal]

   Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.

   Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.